seems like you're overpaying for junk that will just get thrown away in a few months.. playing cards are nice, I guess, but not $45 worth.

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That goes for just about any CE out there. But to be honest, that Duke bust is better than most CE's come with, the History, Legacy & Legend of Duke should be entertaining as it's been 12 years. You got to think of it this way, this game itself is part of gaming history, being it's 12 year creation, Dukes been MIA so long, and he's such an epic character an extra $40 won't break my bank.

I've moved the discussion about gifting/selling steam games to each other to the mod lounge and we'll hash it out there.

While i've personally participated in it and see the benefit to us gamers (especially since i'm in one of the retarded countries with massively hiked prices), it DOES directly contradict a rule w1zzard setup for the B/S/T part of the forum (no virtual items).

Theres going to be some polite discussion on this one for a while, until we sort out what can/should be done. For now, please dont try such sales in this thread.

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Will do Didn't really mean to soil the forums with it, I just got carried away. Any further talk about this will be kept private unless we explicitly can do it here.

If I were in EU, I'd still like to know what prices are in the US, if not just to see if it is worth buying or not, or how much steam is ripping me off

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I used to work for a well known digital music download company as a label manager. I'm sure that there is not that much difference between music downloads & video game downloads to be honest though I could be wrong.

With music downloads the label or the distributor who owns the copyright for the music will set a price per each worldwide territory and the shop who sells the items do not decide on that price and if they sell it for less they would lose money first of all and secondly lose the contract deal with the distributor ofr underselling... so you can beat Steam up regarding their different prices in different worldwide territories, or you can see the bigger picture which is most likely the large game developing companies (EA etc) dictating the prices that items must be sold at worldwide.

I used to work for a well known digital music download company as a label manager. I'm sure that there is not that much difference between music downloads & video game downloads to be honest though I could be wrong.

With music downloads the label or the distributor who owns the copyright for the music will set a price per each worldwide territory and the shop who sells the items do not decide on that price and if they sell it for less they would lose money first of all and secondly lose the contract deal with the distributor ofr underselling... so you can beat Steam up regarding their different prices in different worldwide territories, or you can see the bigger picture which is most likely the large game developing companies (EA etc) dictating the prices that items must be sold at worldwide.

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I'm not beating Steam up, I'm only stating that in certain regions prices are higher than others, and that people in the higher priced regions can always ask someone from the cheaper region to get it for them, saving them money. I'm a consumer, I look at it in a consumer point of view.0With the site I provided people can see if a game they want is significantly cheaper elsewhere, and find a way to pay that price instead of the higher price in their region

At first I was offering that person to be me to help everyone out, but forgot about the rules of TPU So it seems people have to find another way, but friends and family are a great way to save you a few bucks